U.S. Financial Collapse Will End Bush / Cheney Iraq War

U.S. Financial Collapse Will End Bush / Cheney Iraq War

The administration still supports Iraqi President Nouri al Maliki, but al-Maliki is a meaningless figurehead who will have no effect on the
country's future. He has no popular base of support and controls nothing beyond the walls of the Green Zone. The al-Maliki government is merely an
Arab façade designed to convince the American people that political progress is being made, but there is no progress. It's a sham. The future is in
the hands of the men with guns; they're the ones who have divided Iraq into locally-controlled fiefdoms and they are the one's who will ultimately
decide who will rule the state.

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At present, the fighting between the factions is being described as "sectarian warfare," but the term is intentionally misleading. The
fighting is political in nature; the various militias are competing with each other to see who will fill the vacuum left by the removal of Saddam.
It's a power struggle. The media likes to portray the conflict as a clash between half-crazed Arabs – "dead-enders and terrorists" – who relish
the idea killing their countrymen, but that's just a way of demonizing the enemy. In truth, the violence is entirely rational; it is the inevitable
reaction to the dissolution of the state and the occupation by foreign troops. Many military experts predicted that there would be outbreaks of
fighting after the initial invasion, but their warnings were shrugged off by clueless politicians and the cheerleading media. Now the violence has
flared up again in Basra and Baghdad, and there is no end in sight. Only one thing seems certain, Iraq's future will not be decided at the ballot
box. Bush has made sure of that.

I thought this was a pretty good write-up and summary of what is taking place on the occupation, and the toll that it has taken not only on the
military and the Iraqi's but on the home-front here as well. Perhaps this will indeed be over soon when there's no more financial blood left to drain
from the turnip. They've pretty much bled us all dry at this point as it is...

How Will It End?

The Bush administration has decided to pursue a strategy that is unprecedented in US history. It has decided to continue to prosecute a war that has
already been lost morally, strategically, and militarily. But fighting a losing war has its costs. America is much weaker now than it was when Bush
first took office in 2000; politically, economically and militarily. US power and prestige around the world will continue to deteriorate until the
troops are withdrawn from Iraq. But that's unlikely to happen until all other options have been exhausted. Deteriorating economic conditions in the
financial markets are putting enormous downward pressure on the dollar. The corporate bond and equities markets are in disarray; the banking system is
collapsing, consumer spending is down, tax revenues are falling, and the country is headed into a painful and protracted recession. The US will leave
Iraq sooner than many pundits believe, but it will not be at a time of our choosing. Rather, the conflict will end when the United States no longer
has the capacity to wage war. That time is not far off.

The Bush administration has decided to pursue a strategy that is unprecedented in US history. It has decided to continue to prosecute a war that
has already been lost morally, strategically, and militarily.

re Vietnam ~1969-1972ish [Dates fluid] I would say that this was true:

The Johnson administration has decided to pursue a strategy that is unprecedented in US history. It has decided to continue to prosecute a
war [in Vietnam] that has already been lost morally, strategically, and militarily.

This isn't that "unprecedented" I am very sorry to say. I sincerely hope that these haven't set anything for future "unprecedents"

America is much weaker now than it was when Bush first took office in 2000; politically, economically and militarily. US power and prestige around
the world will continue to deteriorate...

The corporate bond and equities markets are in disarray; the banking system is collapsing, consumer spending is down, tax revenues are falling, and
the country is headed into a painful and protracted recession.

Does everyone remember when G-dub proclaimed, "Mission Accomplished"?

I contend that he knew what he was talking about all along and was right, all those years ago, according to "the agenda." It seems obvious
that the above "mission" has been accomplished.

Indeed...Although he hadn't actually 'finished' he and his elitist cronies missions at that point, he knew that they had laid the groundwork for
years of endless profiteering for them all, while the rest of the world was cast aside as collateral damage.

We're not leaving Iraq anytime soon. The domestic economy will probably fall down arounf our ankles, but that won't get us out if Iraq. In fact,
these economic troubles might have been forseen and be the actual reason we are in Iraq in the first place.

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